War Zone
November, 2001
There's a foot-long hole in a wall at Area Xbox, the space at Microsoft's Redmond campus where the company's first home video game console was developed. The hole is circled with a bold black marker and labeled "Seamus was here"--enshrining a mishap by 33-year-old Seamus Blackley, Microsoft's Xbox technology officer. He created the hole by crashing a motorized skateboard in the hallway during the early days of Area Xbox, back when there was talk of building a half-pipe in the office.Th...
